[Kdenlive-devel] PR and Twitter

[Ernie Zahn]

Hey JB,

Happy to help anyway I can! Yeah, that's my thinking. I have no experience
with coding so letting  people like me focus on the areas we can help so
you guys don't have to detract from your coding time would be really
helpful.

-- 

Ernie Zahn.Com

@erniezahn for twitter

On Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 5:02 PM, jb wrote:

On Thursday 24 November 2011 11:17:33 Ernie Zahn wrote:

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it!

I wasn't sure where to inquire about this but I've noticed that there could

be more done in the PR scene to make Kdenlive more visible. More visible to

the general public and more visible to folks that already have a stake in

the same kind of values.

I work for Mozilla and GetGlue, part of what I do at both places is PR and

I'd be happy to donate time to do what I do with them for Kdenlive.

 Hello!

That's a great news.

The twitter for example, doesn't need to be daily,but it could twice a

week. You don't have to exclusively post about updates. It could also be

answering questions that folks have about Kdenlive. Or casually reminding

people that there is native support for WebM export in Kdenlive.

I was at the 2011 Open Video Conference and there were a lot of FOSS

projects there. And there were a lot of WebM guys there too.A lot of people

I spoke with didn't realize that Kdenlive could export WebM, they though

Miro converter was their best and only choice. Miro is great but Kdenlive

has a lot of great export options. So many open source folks didnt even

realize this!

This is just an example. Anyway, I'm rambling. But anyone on the Kdenlive

team interested in me volunteering, PR, management and coordinating are my

professional skills and I'm happy to lend them as it's the best way I can

help. Thanks!

 For sure, some help and experience would be more than welcome. Most of the

active people in the Kdenlive team are really busy, coding and some user

support is almost all we can do now. And as Kdenlive user base is growing,
it

will soon be a full time job to do user support!

I also think Kdenlive deserves a better visibility, I really like the way
that

through MLT, we combine the resources of many open source projects into one

powerful tool.

Also, Kdenlive gets a lot of bad reports because of installation issues,
for

example several distros packaged Kdenlive 0.8 with MLT 0.7.4 which do not
work

together...

I am almost ready to release Kdenlive 0.8.2.1 (probably this week-end),
which

fixes several embarrassing issues like startup crash on some configs, and I

think that this new release will be good enough to start doing some

advertising.

Also, slightly different topic but as you might have seen in the mailing
list,

Till might be available next summer to work full time on Kdenlive for a few

weeks, which means we might want to raise some funds... and by the way, in
the

past year we had a few proposal for donations which were ignored because we

didn't know how to handle this.

Anyways, a lot can probably be done in PR so we are hoping to hear more
from

you!

regards

jb
















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